Quotes About Artistry

Sound unique and commit... the human has to transcend technology and that's what people will hear.

Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me.

First I have tried to achieve the highest quality of technical facility possible so that I have at my fingertips the availability to create anything I want. Then I paint.

You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to do. And with the Pet Shop Boys it's primarily about the songs, it's about song writing.

I wanted to grow in terms of making pictures, not adapting to new software and technology. But that's the game now.

Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you're good, it has the potential to do a lot of exciting things.

Focus on your music and not technology.

You could make some great sounds with technology. That's what recording is all about. What happens in the studio is very magical, and should be, in my opinion.

Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists.

Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time.

The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.

You just have to press the right keys and the right pedals at the right time and the music plays itself.

The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.

Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with 'Stairway to Heaven.'

We are all of us, unique - each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.

I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous.

Just as a picture is created by adding a dab of paint at a time, the best arrangements are created a step at a time, with pauses so you can step back and see the overall effect.

I'm kind of a one-note at a time, one finger keyboard player.

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.

The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.

You need to learn to see and compose. The more time you waste worrying about your equipment the less time you'll have to put into creating great images. Worry about your images, not your equipment.

You have to be a little patient if you're an artist. People don't always get you the first time.